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No L 174/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 23.7.68

REGULATION (EEC ) No 1027/68 OF THE COMMISSION of 22 July 1968 on the determination of prices of calves and adult bovine animals on representative Community markets

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ Whereas the price recorded on the representative MUNITIES , market or markets of each Member State may be taken as the weighted average of the prices which have occurred during a given period at the same Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ marketing stage; whereas the coefficients used for pean Economic Community ; this weighting should reflect the relative quantity of each quality in the supplies on the market;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 1 of 27 June 1968 on the common organis­ Whereas, on the basis of recent experience, the mar­ ation of the market in beef and veal, and in particular kets listed in Annex II are those which should be Articles 10 (5 ) and 25 thereof; regarded as representative;

Whereas Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, where there are several representative 805/68 provides that the price recorded on the markets in a Member State, the quotations recorded representative markets of the Community must be on these markets should be averaged ; derived from the prices recorded on the represen­ tative market or markets of each Member State for the various qualities of calves, adult bovine animals Whereas, with regard to Italy, the quotations for the or the meat of these animals, as the case may be, surplus production zone and the quotations for the after taking into account the relative quantity of each deficit zone should be separately weighted by means of coefficients expressing the relative influence of of such qualities and the relative magnitude of the bovine stock of each Member State ; each of these zones on price formation in that Member State; whereas quotations for the surplus production zone in Italy may be taken as the average Whereas the prices recorded on the representative of the quotations recorded on the different markets markets of the Community may be taken as the within that zone ; average of the prices of the products in question on the representative market or markets of each Mem­ ber State, weighted in accordance with the coefficients Whereas the price recorded on the market must re­ late to the wholesale trade stage ; whereas the expressing the relative magnitude of the bovine stock quotations recorded on the Florence market relate of each Member State ; to ex-farm prices for live bovine animals ; whereas, to convert these quotations to wholesale prices, Whereas it has proved necessary to disregard the allowance should be made for the trading margin markets of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as and transport costs ; representative markets for as long as trade in beef and veal is made subject to quantitative restrictions by that Member State in accordance with the Protocol Whereas the price recorded on the market relates on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, since appli­ to the livestock price, excluding tax ; whereas, in cation of such restrictions has the effect of protecting certain Member States, prices relate to prices for the price of those products from the free play of meat; whereas this difference should be corrected by supply and demand ; means of a coefficient; whereas, however, the prices for carcases on the Rome market should be reduced by the amount of taxes and other costs and then increased by the value of the fifth quarter, before 1 OJ No L 148 , 28.6.1968 , p. 24. application of the above-mentioned coefficient;

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Whereas Member States may, because of health (c) the weighting coefficients referred to in the preced­ protection regulations in particular, find it necessary ing paragraph. to take measures which affect prices ; Article 3 Whereas in such circumstances it is not always 1 . Where there are several representative markets in suitable when recording market prices to take into a Member State, the price of each quality shall be account quotations which do not reflect the normal the average of the quotations recorded on each of trend of the market; whereas consequently certain these markets . Where in a Member State there is a criteria should be laid down allowing the Com­ single representative market, held several times during mission to take account of that situation ; the seven-day period referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ), the price of each quality shall be equal to the arithmetic Whereas, to avoid too frequent alteration of the levy, average of the quotations recorded during each a certain margin should be allowed within which market. variations in the factors entering into the calculation of the price on the representative markets of the 2. With regard to Italy, the price of each quality Community do not entail an alteration of that price ; shall be the average, weighted by the special weighting coefficients laid down in Annex II, of the Whereas it should be laid down that the levy be prices recorded in the surplus and deficit production fixed once a week and have effect from the Monday zones . The price recorded in the surplus production after it is fixed ; zone shall be the average of the quotations recorded on each of the markets within that zone. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­ lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Article 4 Management Committee for Beef and Veal; Where , these quotations do not relate to 'live weight excluding tax' prices, the quotations for the different HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : qualities shall be corrected by the live weight con­ version coefficients laid down in Annex II and, in Article 1 respect of Italy, shall be first increased or reduced by the corrective amounts laid down in Annex II. The price of calves and adult bovine animals on the representative Community markets referred to in Article 10 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall Article 5 be the average of the prices of calves and adult 1 . Member States shall inform the Commission not bovine animals, as the case may be, weighted by later than Thursday in each week of the quotations coefficients laid down in Annex I recorded on the recorded on their representative markets during the representative market or markets of each Member seven-day period preceding the day on which the State . information is given . However, the markets of the Grand Duchy of For Belgium, however, the period referred to in the Luxembourg shall not be taken as representative preceding subparagraph shall include the day on markets for as long as that Member State has re­ which the information is given . That Member State course, in respect of the products listed in Article 1 shall inform the Commission on Thursday of the of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 , to the provisions quotations recorded on its representative market held of Article 1 ( 1 ) of the Protocol on the Grand Duchy on that day. of Luxembourg. 2. Where information is not available, the quotations Article 2 recorded on representative Community markets shall 1 . The price of calves and adult bovine animals on be determined primarily with reference to the latest the representative market or markets of each Member quotations known. State shall be the average, weighted by coefficients, of the prices occurring for the qualities of calves, of 3 . The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg shall inform ' adult bovine animals and of the meat of these ani­ the Commission without delay of each change made, mals, during a seven-day period in that Member in respect of products listed in Article 1 of Regu­ State, at the same wholesale stage. lation (EEC) No 805/68 , in pursuance of the pro­ visions of Article 1 ( 1 ) of the Protocol on the Grand 2. In Annex II are laid down : Duchy of Luxembourg.

( a) the representative markets of each Member State; Article 6 (b ) the qualities of calves, of adult bovine animals Should one or more Member States take measures, and of the meat of these animals ; such as health protection measures, which affect the

Official Journal of the European Communities 297 i normal development of quotations recorded on their Article 8 markets, the Commission may : The entire levy referred to in paragraph 5 of the Bilateral Agreement of 11 January 1968 between — either disregard the quotations recorded on the the European Economic Community and the King­ market or markets in question; dom of Denmark on cattle for processing shall be — or use the last quotations recorded on the market equal to that provided for in the second subparagraph or markets in question before those measures of Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, were put into effect. applicable to adult bovine animals.

Article 9 Where the preceding subparagraph applies and if the situation referred to in that subparagraph continues Subject to the provisions of Article 6 of Commission for two consecutive weeks, a decision shall be taken Regulation (EEC) No 1026/68 1 of 22 July 1968 on as to whether the criteria stated above should be the calculation of a special import price for calves amended or set aside . and adult bovine animals, and the provisions of the Bilateral Agreement referred to in Article 8 of this Article 7 Regulation, the levies provided for in Article 10 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be fixed once For as long as the price of calves or of adult bovine a week and shall be applicable from the Monday animals recorded on the representative Community following the day on which they are fixed. markets, calculated in accordance with the foregoing Articles, differs by less than 0-20 units of account Article 10 per 100 kg live weight from the price previously used for the calculation of the levy, the latter price This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 July shall be maintained . 1968 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 22 July 1968 .

For the Commission The President Jean REY

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ANNEX I

( a) Coefficients to be used in calculating the price on the representative Community markets for calves and adult bovine animals in cases where the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has recourse to the provisions of Article 1 ( 1 ) of the Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Belgium ^ 5*2 Germany 27-5 France 41-0 Italy 19-0 Netherlands 7-3

( b) Coefficients to be used in calculating the price on the representative Community markets for calves and adult bovine animals in cases where the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg does not have recourse to Article 1 (1 ) of the Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Belgium 5*2 Germany 27-5 France 40-8 Italy 18-9 Luxembourg 0-3 Netherlands 7-3

ANNEX II

A. GERMANY

1 . Representative markets : Aachen Essen Kiel Augsburg Frankfurt/Main Köln Bochum Gelsenkirchen Mannheim Braunschweig Hagen München Bremen Hamburg Nürnberg Dortmund Hannover Stuttgart Duisburg Karslruhe Wiesbaden Düsseldorf Kassel Wuppertal

2. Qualities and coefficients : Qualities Weighting coefficients

(a) Adult bovine animals Ochsen A 2-4 Ochsen B 0-6 Färsen A 13-9 Färsen B 4-1 Färsen C 0-6 Bullen A 24-4 Bullen B 9-2 Bullen C 1-0 Kühe A 7-9 Kühe B 22-4 Kühe C 12-0 Kühe D 1-5

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(b) Calves Kälber A 49-7 Kälber B 34-8 Kälber C 12-9 Kälber D 2-6

B. BELGIUM

1 . Representative market : Anderlecht 2. Qualities and coefficients :

Qualities Weighting coefficients (a) Adult bovine animals Génisses 60% * 11*0 Génisses 55% 13-0 Bœufs 60% 7-0 Bœufs 55% 8-0 Taureaux 60% 10-0 Taureaux 55% 13-0 Vaches 55% - 10-0 Vaches 50% 21-0 Bétail de fabrication 7*0

(b) Calves Extra blancs 2-0 Bons 7-0 Ordinaires 76*0 Médiocres 15-0

C. FRANCE

1 . Representative market : La Villette 2. Qualities and coefficients :

Qualities Live weight conversion Weighting coefficients coefficients (a) Adult bovine animals Bœufs extra 58 15-0 Bœufs Ire qualité 55 21-0 Bœufs 2me qualité 52 3*0 Bœufs 3me qualité 49 2-0 Taureaux extra 60 1-0 Taureaux Ire qualité 56 2*0 Vaches extra qualité 59 12-0 Vaches Ire qualité 54 12-0 Vaches 2me qualité 51 23*0 Vaches 3me qualité 47 9-0

(b) Calves Veaux extra 63 27*0 Veaux Ire qualité 60 35*0 Veaux 2me qualité. 55 26*0 Veaux 3me qualité 51 12-0

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D. ITALY 1 . Representative markets :

Surplus production zone eficit production zone Qualities Special weighting Weighting Markets Marke coefficients coefficients

Vitelloni la e 2a qualità Firenze Macerata Padova Reggio Emilia 67 Roma 33 Buoi I a e 2â qualità Chivasso Modena 67 Roma 33 Vacche Ia e 2a qualità Cremona Macerata Modena 67 Roma 33 Vacche 3a qualità Chivasso — — Cremona 100 Vitelli Cremona Macerata Padova Reggio Emilia 67 Roma 33

2. Qualities and coefficients : Qualities Live weight conversion Weighting coefficients 1 coefficients (a ) Adult bovine animals Vitelloni 1* qualita 58 27-0 Vitelloni 2 a qualitå 54 22-0 Buoi l a qualità 55 7-0 Buoi 2à qualità 50 11-0 Vacche l a qua ità 55 8-0 Vacche 2a qualità 49 15*0 Vacche 3 a qualità — 10-0 ( b) Calves Vitelli l à qualità 61 60-0 Vitelli 2a qualità 59 40-0 3 . Corrections : ( a) To obtain the Florence wholesale market price, ex-farm prices are increased by a corrective amount of 4000 units of account/100 kg live weight ; (b) Corrective amounts to be applied to the quotations recorded on the Rome market :

Amounts Amounts Qualities to be added to be deducted u.a./lOO kg u.a./ 100 kg

— 12-480 Vitelloni I a qualità — 12-480 Vitelloni 2 a qualità — 7-840 Buoi I a qualità — 7-840 Buoi 2 a qualità — 7-200 Vacche I a qualità — 7-200 Vacche 2a qualità 7-360 — Vitelli I a qualità 7-360 — Vitelli 2à qualità

1 For Rome market only.

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E. LUXEMBOURG

1 . Representative markets : Luxembour gand Esch-Sur-Alzette

2. Qualities and coufficients : Qualities life weight conversion "Weighting coefficients coefficients (a) Adult bovine animals Bœufs , génisses, tareaux AA 55 65-0 Bœufs, génisses, tareaux A 53 11-0 Bœufs, génisses , tareaux B 52 1-0 Vaches A A 55 3-0 Vaches A 53 14-0 Vaches B * 52 6-0

(b) Calves 60 100-0

F. NETHERLANDS

1 . Representative markets : Adult bovine animals : Rotterdam , 's-Hertogenbosch, Zwolle ; Calves : Barneveld, ' s-Her­ togenbosch

2. Qualities and coefficients : Qualities Live weight conversion Weighting coefficients coefficients (a) Adult bovine animals Slachtrunderen extra 62 10-0 Slachtrunderen le kwaliteit 58 40-0 Slachtrunderen 2e kwaliteit 56 32*0 Slachtrunderen 3e kwaliteit 52 10-0 Vette stieren 57 3-0 Worstkoeien 47 5-0

(b) Calves Kalveren le kwaliteit — 25-0 Klaveren 2e kwaliteit — 55 - 0 K averen 3e kwalitei — 20-0